Passengers trapped inside a sunken South Korean ferry sent text messages to loved ones telling them they were alive but getting desperate for help as the vessel slipped below the water, ABC News reports.

“Love you all for real,”one high school student texted to 30 members of his theater club. “If I’ve wronged any of you, forgive me.”

The ferry carrying 462 passengers — many of them students — began sinking off South Korea’s southern coast on Tuesday for reasons not yet known.

South Korea confirmed that 175 passengers and crew members had been rescued, but at least six people were killed and 55 were injured, according to Reuters. More than 280 are still unaccounted for.

The ferry sank in 104 foot-deep waters, where the temperature is about 54 degrees Fahrenheit — cold enough to cause hypothermia within two hours, officials told The New York Times.

Amid growing frustration with the lack of information, some parents pooled their money to hire a boat to take them closer to the ferry, The Guardian reported.

“Since the government refused to take us to the scene 11 parents chipped in 61,000 won ($60) each to hire a boat and took a reporter and a diver. But there was no rescue operation going on,” said one father who declined to give his name.

Text messages sent from within were widely reported in South Korean media, as many shared the messages they have received.

“I am alive, there are students alive, please save us quickly,” one father told Reuters his child texted. The father believes his child is staying alive inside an air pocket in the sunken vessel.

“Can’t see a thing, it’s totally dark,”another message from a son to a mother read, according to CNN. “We are not dead yet, so please send along this message.”

Since Wednesday, helicopters and coast guard vessels from South Korea have been working on rescue operations, but they have been hindered by mud on the ocean floor that makes the search difficult, AP reported. Even worse, many passengers followed an announcement to remain where they were inside the ferry, even after a crash was heard and it began to tilt.

“Mom,” Los Angeles Times reported another student texting his mother. “This might be my last chance to tell you I love you.” She messaged back, but did not receive a response.

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the world’s tallest building is sited in the city of dubai, situated among equally impressive, sky-scraping towers that infill the united arab emirates’ urban landscape.

fog season, typically occurring during the transitional periods from hot to cool weather, makes for a particularly dramatic panorama:

building crowns pierce the clouds, slicing between dense pillows of air like sewing needles through a translucent textile.

photographer daniel cheong is a resident of the megacity, and takes these limited climatic opportunities to rise to high vantage points and capture the scene.

his collection of images are multidimensional in their approach and outcome — cheong adopts digital blending techniques, which consist of manually blending multiple bracketed exposures in order to obtain the maximum dynamic range.

simultaneously, he aims to maintain a natural look and avoid the quality of an overworked HDR image. ‘this slight element of the surreal, or hyper-reality often found in painting, is what iI am trying to achieve‘ he says.

Tinish, an orphaned baboon, gets a ride on a man named Allamayu’s shoulder during a 1926-1927 Africa expedition. (1927)

The hundreds of photos include plates from the museum’s 1893 birth during the World’s Columbian Exposition (a.k.a. the Chicago World’s Fair), when artifacts and collections needed somewhere to live.

Six unidentified carpenters, one tiny cat, and an unidentified male statue leaning against the column outside the Field Columbian Museum. (1914)

They take you inside the museum’s original home in Chicago’s Jackson Park (when it was informally known as the Field Columbian Museum), where you can see taxidermists and botanists preparing displays.

Fighting African elephants being transported by rail from the Field Columbian museum to the new site in Grant Park. (1920)

And there are photos showing how crews loaded those fragile display cases onto the rail cars that would freight them across the city in 1920 to their new home.

Museum director Frederick J.V. Skiff in his office. (1895)

But that’s not all. Those yearning for the old-school collecting expeditions of yesteryear can find photos from trips to places like Africa, Peru, the South Pacific, and Oregon.

A 1920’s advertisement suggesting visitors take the Illinois Central railroad to the museum. (1929)

People, plants, and animals that lived more than a century ago are once again visible, including renowned taxidermist and sculptor Carl Akeley, and a little orphaned baboon who became a special member of an 1890′s Africa expedition.

Now, a more than a century later, the Field Museum is one of the most beloved of Chicago’s citizens. The behemoth institution houses more than 24 million specimens and draws millions of visitors each year.

Hall 36, Paleontology: On the right is a megalodon jaw (“Hands Off”) with modern shark jaw for comparison. Other specimens include deer and a hadrosaur. (1895)

Among other things, it has Sue, the world’s most complete T. rex fossil (she even has her own witty, meat-loving Twitter account), the Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo, and some of the largest fish, bird skin, and mollusk collections in the world.

Lt. Colonel John Patterson, who killed the Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo, shown here in Kenya (he’s the one with the dog). (1898)

We’ve pulled some of our favorite photos from the archive for you, but there are many more in the museum’sFlickr stream and Tumblrto stare at. Narwhals, hippos, sarcophagi, sunfish, totem poles? They’re all in there.

Late 19th century taxidermy: large mammals and cats in glass exhibit cases and in a diorama group at the Field Columbian Museum. (1899)

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